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# Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.1015

Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c5.1015

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### [c5.1015](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5.1015)

DRḌHĀŚVA. A famous king of the Ikṣvāku dynasty. He was the son of Kuvalayāśva who had 21,000 sons. All those sons but three were killed in the fight with an asura called Dhundhu. The three sons who survived the killing were Drḍhāśva, Kapilāśva and Candrāśva. (Vana Parva, Chapter 204).

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- [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit

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